Lion-O (Red Boots and Armour), LJN 1985

About This Figure

On the Thunderwings box and Lion-O with Thunderwings packaging, the boots and body armour on the Lion-O figure posed with the Thunderwings are painted red instead of the usual light blue. It is unclear why the boots and body armour were painted a different colour to the actual figure released. The Lion-O figure with the red coloured boots and body armour was never actually released. I'm assuming LJN were thinking of changing the colour of some parts of the modified Thunderwings Lion-O, Lion-O figure to make it slightly more unique colour wise. However by the time this figure went into production they probably changed their minds and kept the same colours as on the regular Lion-O figure.

What the record shows

Assortment number 3620 · Case pack 24 · Assortment title Good Thundercat

Evidenced by the Thunderwings box and the Lion-O with Thunderwings packaging.

Lion-O (Red Boots and Armour), as it appears in the Thunderwings box and the Lion-O with Thunderwings packaging

Lion-O (Red Boots and Armour) in the Thunderwings box and the Lion-O with Thunderwings packaging. Scan from the thundercats.org archive.

Sourcing

The assortment number and case pack above are transcribed from the LJN catalogue scans held in the thundercats.org archive. With one exception, assortment 3526 for the Berserkers, these numbers are not published anywhere else on the open web, so treat them as our reading of our own documents rather than settled collector fact.